Translation Quotes

Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase. Ian Holm
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I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. Jan Vogler
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There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print. Jim Lee
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A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text. Jonathan Galassi
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. Jonathan Lethem
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. Jonathan Miller
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It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. Joseph Brodsky
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To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. Julia Holter
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I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being directly a translation of what I'm aware that I'm feeling, you know? Julia Holter
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us. Karen Joy Fowler
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world. Kate Grenville
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I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. Kazuo Ishiguro
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My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others. Kehinde Wiley
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Translation is an act of recreation. Ken Liu
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My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is. Ken Liu
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My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career. Ken Liu
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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote. Leland Ryken
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If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story. Lydia Davis
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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker
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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. Marilyn Hacker
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I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation. Mark Kurlansky
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I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. Mark Kurlansky
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I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. Michael Cunningham
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So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. Nathan Englander
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Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. Nicolas Cage
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. Octavio Paz
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